There are situations sometimes when .NET loads wrong assembly or can't load one at all. Usually we can see TypeLoadException in that case. Assuming we have exception at all. One of my work colleagues had situation today that gave a real world example for post I was thinking about quite long time. There...

Usually object validation requires writing a lot of code that examines properties and returns validation result. With VAB this scenario becomes extremely easy and simple. Let us consider sample class: 1 public class User 2 { 3 public User() 4 { 5 } 6 7 private string _firstName; 8 public string FirstName...

Here goes with my maiden post on devlicio.us (thanks Brendan!) ---- I wondered about the differences between these the other day and here's what I found . I am comparing constants to static readonly class fields because they are used in the same way. At a high level, constants are obviously dealt with...

Inspired by Jeff's post , i thought I'd talk about some useful things I do with .NET 2.0 on a daily basis. Let's start with lists of generics. This is a great advance in programming. As well as being a powerful collection object, they can also be easily used as a datasource. All you have...